Top 1200 False Assumptions Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

When somebody says that all statements are false, the obvious problem is that as an assertion it's self-defeating.

I envy poets because nobody ever asks them if it's true or false.

It is false to suggest that medical breakthroughs come only through government research.

To show an unfelt sorrow is an office Which the false man does easy.

If the feminist program goes to pieces on the arrival of the first baby, it's false and useless.

A true worshipper is one whose mind has not been defiled with any false belief.

How easy it is for the proper-false in woman's waxen hearts to set their forms!

Now that I have called you on your false accusation, you are using additional smear tactics.

I never thought I had the ability to not watch. People think I watch MSNBC's "Morning Joe." I don't watch "Morning Joe." I never thought I had the ability to, and who used to treat me great by the way, when I played the game. I never thought I had the ability to not watch what is unpleasant, if it's about me. Or pleasant. But when I see it's such false reporting and such bad reporting and false reporting that I've developed an ability that I never thought I had. I don't watch things that are unpleasant. I just don't watch them.

When you're starting out, you basically have all these assumptions about what it means to be an artist or how to be a rock star. It took me years, through trial and error, to figure out what does work for me. So much of it is counter to the myth of the rock-star life.

WikiLeaks is literally the worst place in the world to try and plant a false story.

People who say they're too busy to have lunch have a false impression of their own importance.

That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false.

Accept false steps as opportunities to learn. It's one thing to hate failure, it's another to fear it.

Unconscious assumptions or opinions are the worst enemy of woman; they can even grow into a positively demonic passion that exasperates and disgusts men, and does the woman herself the greatest injury by gradually smothering the charm and meaning of her femininity and driving it into the background. Such a development naturally ends in profound psychological disunion, in short, in a neurosis.

Don't let expertise fool you into seeing false boundaries or underestimating those with wild dreams.

Part of the reason you see so little about this in the Western media is that Iraq was closed off from the outside world for so long under Saddam. But I think there's a deeper reason, which is that it messes with our assumptions - not just about Iraq, but about culture and human nature.

You are not naked when you take off your clothes. You still wear your religious assumptions, your prejudices, your fears, your illusions, your delusions. When you shed the cultural operating system, then essentially you stand naked before the inspection of your own psyche.

It's a false illusion that we wake up thinking of who we are in terms of identity and that we are stuck in the boundaries of who we are nationalistically.

The people I go after are the false experts, those who do not accept the limits of their knowledge.

I think the perception of there being a deep gulf between science and the humanities is false.

All is a play in consciousness. All divisions are illusory. You can know the false only. The true you must yourself be.

The sacrifice of our personal liberty for security is and will forever be a false choice.

Canadians want to see real hope restored, not false hopes raised.

Balasaheb Thackeray's teachings have been that defeat is better than false promises.

When the truth cannot be clearly made out, what is false is increased through fear.

There is no actual stress or anxiety in the world, your thoughts create these false beliefs.

For to interpose a little ease, Let our frail thoughts dally with false surmise.

Without independent corroboration, little can be done to tell a false memory from a true one.

As a child, I always chose a false nose and some face paint and a wig for my birthday.

False pleasures come from without and are imperfect: happiness is internal and our own.

Humility is often a false front we employ to gain power over others.

You cannot prove realism to a complete sceptic or idealist; but you can show an honest man that he is not a complete sceptic or idealist, but a realist at heart. So long as he is alive his sincere philosophy must fulfil the assumptions of his life and not destroy him.

An economic system which can only expand or expire must be false to all that is human.

There is a courageous wisdom; there is also a false, reptile prudence, the result not of caution but of fear.

There is something truly restorative, finally comforting, in coming to the end of an illusion - a false hope.

Being best is a false goal, you have to measure success on your own terms.

A train of thought is never false. The falsehood lies deep in the necessities of existence.

The more deeply I search for the roots of the global environmental crisis, the more I am convinced that it is an outer manifestation of an inner crisis that is, for lack of a better word, spiritual... what other word describes the collection of values and assumptions that determine our basic understanding of how we fit into the universe?

The way I feel about music is that there is no right and wrong. Only true and false.

The thing I hate about writers is they want to state their case and they use false information.

If we dealt only with the false and dishonest, we should at last forget how to speak truth.

False hope is the bread - and - butter of my existence, the only thing that keeps me going.

True humility is more like self-forgetfulness than false modesty.

If I wore a peek-a-boo dress, it would be like turning in a false alarm.

Just as you have come to know, the false discrimination of yourself, apply this mentally to all phenomena

I don't like false happy endings, and I don't think the real world is such a forgiving place.

I actually believe that some residue of discrimination would lessen, because it's my view that there is a certain percentage of the white population that stereotypes and makes assumptions about African Americans because they don't inject the history of slavery and Jim Crow into current incarceration rates, or crime rates, or poverty rates, or what have you.

Writing, printing, and the Internet give a false sense of security about the permanence of culture.

If history is any indication, all truths will eventually turn out to be false.

There's something about the intimacy of comics that gives you a false bravado; you don't always consider the consequences.

My mantra about everything that has to do with public policy is: identify and reject the false choice.

And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare As any she belied with false compare.

Spring ... made fair false promises which summer was called upon to keep.

There might be false starts and do-overs.You are entitled to experiment before you find your calling.

I found comfort in aggression, in breaking through false walls and challenging norms.

It's ridiculous for a woman to say that she's not attracted to other women. That's completely false.

I don't believe in the deplorable notion of realism in the cinema: you can over-reach it, and it becomes as false as convention.

...how false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.

You need to set near-term milestones. Put the assumptions down on paper, and make it to your vision or ultimate product. Your team has to understand where they're going. Your partners need to understand where they're going.